Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present Feel Me, I’m Here With You, a new body of work by Jordan Hearns, supported by our Emerging Artist Award 2021-22.

On show in our Artists’ Project Space from 15 September – 15 October.

London-based Irish artist Jordan Hearns’ new series Feel Me, I’m Here With You is a romantic chronicle composed of recent photographic works produced over the past twelve months between Dublin, London, Paris, and Lisbon. Initially intended to act as a personal photographic diary, the works emerged naturally, as Hearns’ began documenting a burgeoning long-distance relationship. Beginning in Paris, he used photography as a means of adjustment, utilising something innately familiar to navigate the unfamiliar. The resulting images provide a tender and emotive insight into Hearns’ recent lived experience as he explores his evolving sense of self, newfound locales, and a newfound relationship. 

The development of this work has been supported by Photo Museum Ireland through its Emerging Artist Award 2021-2022. Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to support and encourage the growth of new creative talent in Irish photography. We want the Emerging Artist Awards programme to empower the recipients in developing sustainable individual practices, making a significant contribution to the exciting future of photography in Ireland. A zine edition of Feel Me, I’m Here With You was recently released on Hearns’ own collaborative imprint, SMUT Press.

Jordan Hearns (b. Laois, 1995) is a socially engaged Irish artist. His practice explores the significance of spaces as vessels for individualism and expression, explored within the contexts of time, memory and ephemerality. His photographic works document transient street flowers, short-lived clubbing spaces and underground clubbing/queer communities. In his most recent work he combines mixed media, moving image and audio curation, as well as a series of artist editioned publications.